Slavery Abolition

Pennsylvania's James Buchanan, who lived from 1791 to 1868, was the 15th president of the United States and is generally regarded as one of the worst to ever hold that office. On his watch, the Union dissolved as Southern states seceded following the election…

PLYMOUTH, Mass.   Before they're served piles of turkey and pie, kids often hear the story of the first Thanksgiving  how Pilgrims and native Americans came together to feast and count their blessings. But most aren't told native people likely outnumbered En…

Last year, in May, when he announced a new partnership with Netflix, he revealed he and Michelles production company would be called Higher Ground. In July, just after Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Helsinki, Obama gave his most extensive public remarks, the…

Christians need heroes. Yes, I know, Jesus is the ultimate hero. He is the only flawless hero, the only substitute-for-our-sins hero, the only dying and rising hero. But that doesnt mean Jesus is the only kind of hero. As Christians, we are right to be insp…

“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” movie poster from 1962(John Ford Productions/IMDB ) By questioning myth-making, John Wayne and John Fords late Western restores the values of the Constitution and the Declaration.The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was such a …

President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863. The Stories of Segregation Academies, as Told by the White Students Who Attended Them When Did the Right Become Unable to Deal With the Complexity of American…

Most Americans assume that the Thanksgiving holiday has always been associated with the Pilgrims, Indians, and their famous feast. Yet that connection is barely 150 years old and is the result of white Protestant New Englanders asserting their cultural author…

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War a PBS documentary series produced by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Library of CongressA reunion of former slaves at the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, Washington, D.C., 1917. From left to right, Lewis Martin, 100; Martha El…

—In which John Green ACTUALLY teaches about the Civil War. In part one of our two part look at the US Civil War, John looks into the causes of the war, and the motivations of the individuals who went to war. The overarching causes and the individual motivatio…

Editor's Note This article was originally reported and published in 2014 and has been updated and reformatted in 2019. (CNN) Death -- life's greatest unknown, and yet it comes to all of us. This perhaps explains our fascination not just with death, but, in…